Source: Canada’s National Forest Inventory, Standard Reports, Table 4.1, Area of forest and non-forest land by terrestrial ecozone in Canada.

Notes: The National Forest Inventory uses the following definitions from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations:

Forest land–areas of land where tree canopies cover more than 10% of the total area and the trees, when mature, can grow to a height of more than 5 metres. Does not include land that is predominantly urban or used for agricultural purposes.

Other land with tree cover–areas of land where tree canopies cover more than 10% of the total area and the trees, when mature, can grow to a height of at least 5 metres. Includes treed areas on farms, in parks and gardens, and around buildings. Also includes tree plantations established mainly for purposes other than wood production, such as fruit orchards.

Other wooded land–areas of land where: 1) tree canopies cover 5–10% of the total area and the trees, when mature, can grow to a height above 5 metres; or 2) shrubs, bushes and trees together cover more than 10% of the area. These areas include treed wetlands (swamps) and land with slow-growing and scattered trees. They do not include land that is predominantly agricultural or urban.

Disturbance

Insects (hectares, 2013)

Area defoliated by insects and containing beetle-killed trees

20,129,334

Fires (2014)

Area burned (hectares)

4,563,848

Number of fires

5,127

Disturbance sources and information

Insects

Source: National Forestry Database, Forest Insects—National Tables, Table 4.1, Area within which moderate to severe defoliation occurs including area of beetle-killed trees by insects and province/territory, 1975–2013.

Note: Data includes those areas where there is tree mortality and moderate to severe defoliation. Defoliation does not always imply mortality. For example, stands with moderate defoliation often recover and may not lose much growth. Also, defoliation is mapped on an insect species basis, and a given area may be afflicted by more than one species at a time. This may result in double or triple counting in areas affected by more than one species, exaggerating the extent of the total area defoliated.

Note: National data include all burned areas within Canada’s forests. Provincial data do not include fires within national parks. In 2014, 81 fires burned 282,125 hectares in national parks across Canada.

Notes: If a forest area has been certified to more than one of the three sustainable forest management standards (Canadian Standards Association [CSA], Sustainable Forestry Initiative [SFI], and Forest Stewardship Council [FSC]) then the area is counted only once. Therefore, the total certification for sustainable forest management standards may be less than the sum of the individual totals for these standards.

Protected forest

Source: Canada’s National Forest Inventory, Standard Reports, Table 22.1, Area of forest land by IUCN category, and terrestrial ecozone in Canada.

For forest lands affected by land-use change, the deforestation and afforestation figures reflect annual rates. Figures for CO2-equivalent (CO2e) emissions and removals reflect the current year plus the previous 20 years. Thus, the figures for CO2e emissions include residual emissions from areas deforested over the past 20 years, and the figures for CO2e removals include ongoing removals by areas afforested over the past 20 years.

Note: A measure of the economic production that takes place within the geographical boundaries of Canada. Nominal GDP is measured in current dollars and available only for Canada. Current dollars are used to describe the value of production in any given year.

Labour Force Survey

Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, (special extraction).

Note: Employment–includes jobs held by people employed directly in the following industries: forestry and logging, industries involved in support activities for forestry, pulp and paper product manufacturing, and wood product manufacturing. Data are sourced from Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey (LFS). The LFS data are used to capture the level of self-employment in the forest sector.

Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours

Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM Table 281-0023, Employment (SEPH), unadjusted for seasonal variation, by type of employee for selected industries classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

Note: Employment–includes jobs held by people employed directly in the following industries: forestry and logging, industries involved in support activities for forestry, pulp and paper product manufacturing, and wood product manufacturing. Data are sourced from Statistics Canada’s the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (SEPH). The SEPH data are used for comparing direct employment in forestry with that in other sectors.

Canadian System of National Accounts

Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM Table 383-0031, Labour statistics consistent with the System of National Accounts (SNA), by province and territory, job category and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

Note: The System of National Accounts is used by Statistics Canada to assemble all of the relevant data on the Canadian economy into a consistent set of metrics.

Note: The earnings, in cash or in kind, of Canadian residents for work performed before deduction of income taxes and contributions to pension funds, employment insurance and other social insurance schemes.

Note: Capital expenditures–includes the costs of procuring, constructing and installing or leasing new durable plants, machinery and equipment, whether for the replacement of or addition to existing assets. Also included are all capitalized costs, such as costs for feasibility studies and architectural, legal, installation and engineering fees; the value of capital assets put in place by firms, either by contract or with the firm’s own labour force; and capitalized interest charges on loans for capital projects.

Note: Revenue from goods manufactured includes revenue from the sale of goods manufactured using materials owned by the establishment, as well as from repair work, manufacturing service charges and work contracted to others.

The difference between the value of the goods and services that a country exports and the value of the goods and services that it imports. If a country’s exports exceed its imports, it has a trade surplus. If its imports exceed exports, the country has a trade deficit.

The value of imports (in 2014 dollars) for primary wood products for the province of Prince Edward Island (PEI) is not available and therefore is not included in the calculation of the total value of imports or the balance of trade for either PEI or Canada.

Note: Production and consumption figures for newsprint, printing and writing paper, and wood pulp are based on Pulp and Paper Products Council data. The production and consumption data of structural panels (plywood and oriented strandboard) are from APA — The Engineered Wood Association.

Consumption

Source: Consumption figures for a range of products, calculated by Natural Resources Canada.